WordPress 7.0 RTC has been pulled from the release. Race conditions and TTFB regressions from bypassed persistent caching drove the call, and RC3 now moves back toward a beta state while the core team focuses on stability.
How I stopped re-explaining my projects to Claude every session. I keep a persistent knowledge base built from CLAUDE.md rules and a custom skill, and a nightly cron job keeps it current.
In WooCommerce 10.8 the REST API stops silently turning non-order IDs, like subscriptions, into plain orders. It now returns a 400 instead. Here is what breaks and how to route subscription requests correctly.
Not every task needs to run in real time. Here is how I decide between batch and stream for a WordPress data processing strategy, and how Action Scheduler keeps heavy WooCommerce work off the checkout path.
How Apache Flink treats batch as a special case of streaming, and how to wire a WooCommerce store into a Flink pipeline for real-time recommendations instead of nightly cron jobs.
Why I went local-first after an app died on hotel Wi-Fi: keep data on the device with SQLite in the browser, sync in the background, and resolve conflicts without overwriting what users typed.
The four places an autonomous agent gets attacked (prompt, tools, memory, and the planning loop) and how to lock down a WordPress and PHP backend with least privilege, schema validation, and reasoning logs.
A fashion retailer updated a forecast on a Tuesday and the supply team saw it eleven days later, after the factory lead time had expired. Here is where that delay comes from and what integrated business planning changes about it.
Plugging in the OpenAI API is not engineering. Notes on what actually matters when you build LLM features on WordPress: token costs, attention limits, RAG over fine-tuning, and keeping a 30-second API call from taking down PHP-FPM.
Beau Lebens talked about agentic commerce at Stripe Sessions, where AI agents do the shopping. My take on the hard parts: live inventory data, checkout security for bots, and what MCP and the Abilities API actually change.